Asatru Folk Assembly - September 08, 2025


On Honor #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

Hosted by
Steve McNallen
Mentioned
Wilhelm Grombeck
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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

147.61

Word count

374

Sentence count

10


Summary

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In this episode, I discuss the concept of honor and how it has evolved in our society over the years, and why it is important for us to pay attention to the meaning of honor in relation to our ancestors.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 All right. So I wanted to wanted to say a couple of things about honor up front, because it's a word that has evolved in our lexicon over time.
00:00:11.520 And I don't. I guess there's there's two main different uses of honor, and I think that both of them are valid and good.
00:00:23.900 but i know that one we're very familiar with and that's the idea of your personal code your personal
00:00:31.260 you know dignity of how you how you handle things yourself and your personal um
00:00:39.820 your personal pursuit of of right and wrong on your own code but the the original meaning of
00:00:47.500 honor and the meaning that was was most relevant to our ancestors and these two do go together
00:00:53.580 certainly was the idea of fame or renown and again because of that personal code because
00:01:01.340 of the dignity and the nobleness of your actions and your behavior but the concept of honor was
00:01:07.100 had much bigger social ramifications because it was the reputation earned through you know through
00:01:15.100 good deeds or through prowess in battle or prowess in legal matters or prowess in whatever
00:01:22.580 you do.
00:01:23.060 But the esteem and the fame that honor did gave you a certain amount of currency socially
00:01:31.960 when you traveled, when you went from place to place, when you interacted with people,
00:01:37.640 your reputation preceded you.
00:01:41.060 and people would have something to gauge by and and know you and on top of that it was something
00:01:46.420 that uh others associated with you could use you know hey i i know adam adam can vouch for me oh
00:01:53.940 adam okay in that case in that case you must be all right um it was something you could use as a uh
00:02:01.620 as a signpost to know how to treat certain people so it was it was a very much about dignity and
00:02:07.620 reputation. Now those things certainly come from all of the things that we in a modern sense
00:02:13.620 think of as honor, but its social currency was huge to our ancestors. And I first really
00:02:20.340 that solidified in my head when I read Wilhelm Grombeck's Culture of the Coutons.
00:02:25.940 But I think it's something that is really important for us to consider nowadays.